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The cosmic evolution of gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity is essential for revealing the GRB physics and for using GRBs as cosmological probes. We investigate the luminosity evolution of long GRBs with a large sample of 258 {\em Swift}/BAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Can-Min Deng , Xiang-Gao Wang , Bei-Bei Guo , Rui-Jing Lu , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , En-Wei Liang

AIMS. We are studying an unbiased sample of 42 nearby (z < 0.2) BL Lacertae objects with a multi-wavelength approach. The results of VLBI observations were presented in the first paper of this series. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , S. Rainò

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

We perform a multi-band statistical analysis of core-dominated superluminal active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected with Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The detection rate of $\gamma$-ray jets is found to be high for optically bright AGN.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-14 T. G. Arshakian , J. León-Tavares , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan

We compiled the radio, optical, and X-ray data of blazars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database, and presented the distribution of luminosities and broad band spectral indices. The distribution of luminosities shows that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-20 Huaizhen Li , Luoen Chen , Yunguo Jiang , Tingfeng Yi

We construct the rest-frame 2--10 keV intrinsic X-ray luminosity function of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) from a combination of X-ray surveys from the all-sky Swift BAT survey to the Chandra Deep Field-South. We use ~3200 AGNs in our…

The study of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is vital in order to understand their respective nuclei bounded activity primarily triggered by the accretion disk and the associated corona. The hard X-ray emission characterised by the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 D. Nour , K. Sriram

We present the results of the $\gamma$-ray flux distribution study on the brightest blazars which are observed by the \emph{Fermi}-LAT. We selected 50 brightest blazars based on the maximum number of detection reported in the LAT third AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Zahir Shah , N. Mankuzhiyil , A. Sinha , R. Misra , S. Sahayanathan , N. Iqbal

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are powerful astrophysical events with relativistic jets. In this Letter the broadband spectral properties are compared between GRBs and the well-observed blazars. The distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 F. Y. Wang , S. X. Yi , Z. G. Dai

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The Second LAT AGN Catalog (2LAC) includes 1017 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

The knowledge of the physical conditions occurring in the relativistic jet of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is important to understand the mechanisms at the basis of their multiband emission. From parsec-scale radio observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-29 M. Orienti , G. Giovannini , D. Dallacasa , M. Giroletti , T. Venturi , F. D'Ammando , S. Vercellone , M. Tavani

The detection of several radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope hints at the existence of a rare, new class of gamma-ray emitting active galactic nuclei with low black hole masses. Like flat…

We present the first measurement of the projected correlation function of 485 gamma-ray selected Blazars, divided in 175 BLLacertae (BL Lacs) and 310 Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) detected in the 2-year all-sky survey by Fermi-Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Viola Allevato , Alexis Finoguenov , Nico Cappelluti

BL Lac objects are a class of jetted active galactic nuclei that do not exhibit or have weak emission lines in their optical spectra. Recently, the first $\gamma$-ray emitting BL Lac beyond $z=3$, 4FGL J1219.0 +3653 (hereafter J1219), was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Srijita Hazra , Vaidehi S. Paliya , A. Domínguez , C. Cabello , N. Cardiel , J. Gallego

We are compiling a new list of gamma-ray jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN), starting from the fourth catalog of point sources of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our aim is to prepare a list of jetted AGN with known redshifts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 L. Foschini , M. L. Lister , S. Antón , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , M. J. M. Marchã , M. Tornikoski , E. Järvelä , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , E. Dalla Bontà

We considered the fourth catalog of gamma-ray point sources produced by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and selected only jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) or sources with no specific classification, but with a low-frequency…

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

One of the most important problem of the blazar astrophysics is to understand the physical origin of the blazar sequence. In this study, we focus on the GeV gamma-ray variability of blazars and evolution perspective we search the relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 S. Tsujimoto , J. Kushida , K. Nishijima , K. Kodani

Based on the classical unification, blazars, namely BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), are believed to correspond with radio galaxies when observed at small jet viewing angles. In this paper, we aim to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Xu-Hong Ye , Ranieri D. Baldi , Wen-Xin Yang , Jing-Tian Zhu , Denis Bastieri , Rumen S. Bachev , Anton A. Strigachev , Jun-Hui Fan